
REPLICATION FILES FOR 
Morin-Chass�, Alexandre. In Press. "How to survey about electoral turnout? Additional evidence" Journal of Experimental Political Science.

Hello users,

This dataverse replication file comprises six documents:
I)   "Short_paragraph_experiment_Stata_data_file.dta"
II)  "Short_paragraph_experiment_Stata_syntax_file.do"
III) "Short_paragraph_experiment_Stata log_file.smcl"
IV)  "FSRI_experiments_Stata_data_file.dta"
V)   "FSRI_experiments_Stata_syntax_file.do"
VI)  "FSRI_experiments_Stata_log_file.smcl"
+ the current "Read me.txt" file.

Below is a short description of each variables.

THE SHORT PARAGRAPH EXPERIMENT

The file "Short_paragraph_experiment_Stata_data_file.dta" includes 8 variables:
1) "p_voted" presents the response distribution for the turnout question without preamble(exact wording described in the JEPS paper) ;
2) "p_votedlong" presents the response distribution for the turnout question with a short preamble (exact wording described in the JEPS paper).
The exact question wording for these two questions appears in the JEPS paper in Table 1.
3) "p_disab" comes from the post-election survey and asks respondents whether they have a disability;
4) "sex_r" presents the sex of respondents, male or female;
5) "age" reports the year R was born. It is recode as part of the do file to report the actual age;
6) "education" reports the highest completed level of education;
7) "interest" was collected as part of the preelection survey and reports the level of interest for this election;
8) "voted_2011" was collected as part of the preelection survey and asked Rs whether they voted or not in the previous election.

THE FACE-SAVING RESPONSE ITEMS EXPERIMENTS

The file "FSRI_experiments_Stata_data_file.dta" includes 10 variables:
1) "RESPID" is a unique identifier within each survey sample;
2) "ELECID" shows a different value for each survey, with value labels describing the survey;
3) "ELYEAR" is the year where the election of interest took place;
4) "COUNTRY" presents the country where the survey was fielded;
5) "LEVEL"  is the level of government for this election: Municipal, Regional, National or European;
6) "POST_WEIGHT_1" is the population weights used to improve the representativity of the samples, based on five Rs' characteristics: age, gender, education, region and mother tongue;
7) "voted_complx2" presents the response distribution for the treatment group, i.e. the group exposed to face-saving response items (exact wording described in the JEPS paper);
8) "voted_simple" presents the response distribution for the control group, i.e. the group exposed to the "yes or no" response options (exact wording described in the JEPS paper);
9) "FSRIs" is a dummy variable identifying to which group each R was assigned to;
10) "voted" is a dummy derived from "voted_complx2" and "voted_simple" coding whether the respondent report having voted or abstained at this election.

Users can consult the "Introduction" sections of the do files or the resulting log files to find information about the source of the data for both data files.

I hope this helps!

Best,

Alexandre Morin-Chass�, PhD
Research analyst
Universit� de Montr�al







